Autor: Lena Hödl

The aaia unites around 200 members that are as diverse as they come. Everyone from the young successful entrepreneur, who wants to give back, to the retired former senior employee can be a member. The one criteria that unites them all is the passion for angel investment and the wish to support entrepreneurs on their […]

One can feel, that the investors scene is developing and increasingly more people become active business angels. For this growing target group, the aaia created a new event format that allows the participants to get a taste of the business angel world and learn all skills needed to make first deals confidently. The Investors Academy […]

This question is usually asked only when things are not going so well in the company, right? How much minimal structure do I need to be able to work efficiently and how much maximum structure so that one does not internally and externally block oneself? Which paths and tools help me to find the right […]

Over the last decades, business models and the way companies create value have changed fundamentally. We could observe a shift from material assets to immaterial assets as the primary source for value creation. In 1975, material assets represented 87% of the market capitalization of the S&P 500 while immaterial assets, such as intellectual property, licenses, […]

On October the 10th we celebrated our fifth anniversary. The Austrian Angel Investor Association looks back at five wonderful years! The event was opened with a retrospection on this period by our board members Stefanie Pingitzer, Selma Prodanovic, Niki Futter, Hansi Hansmann and Werner Wutscher. They spoke of an emotional decision against many oppositions, that […]

The health industry. Ages old and forever known as an inflexible state-led domain. But times are changing even for this verticle and we wanted to cover all important developments for our members in the event”Health Uncovered”. It was the first episode of our new event series “Vertical Uncovered”- an industry-specific format that we organise together […]

1. Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation Dan Pink explains the power of intrinsic motivation and why extrinsic motivators could even do harm to your businesses! He argues that there is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does – Watch this talk to know which rewards you should choose to motivate your […]

To provide you with an introduction of the different investor ecosystems in Europe, we want to start with a new blog series. The first one, you are reading it right now, will cover the Hungarian startup and investor scene. Antal Karolyi and Lenard Horgos from HunBAN answered our most important questions. The Hungarian Business Angel Network […]

Following our last blog post about the Austrian investors scene, we now want to give an overview of the situation in Europe. This year at the EBAN annual conference in Malaga, Jacopo Losso (Director of Secretariat, EBAN) presented the most important statistics concerning early stage investments in Europe. We crunched the numbers and had a look how Austria is […]

The Austrian Angel Investor Association (aaia) is the leading angel investors network in Austria. It provides know-how, an international network and investment opportunities for about 200 members. Since the investment in startups is on the rise in Austria, we want to highlight how this form of investment looks like and how the industry grows. Last […]